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Music

My oldest son is the creative force, guitarist, writer, lead singer, and leader of a "math metal" band called The Great Wall. It's a quartet of guys...two guitars, bass and drums...that don't play any measures of 4/4 time. It's called math metal" for a reason.
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I used to attend a lot of concerts. Most of them were classical because I did so much live recording twenty years ago, but these days I don't travel too far from home because of traffic, Charlie (the new puppy), and because I go to bed pretty early (and get up early). However, yesterday my wife and I attended a Saturday matinee concert by the Gustavo Dudamel and Los Angeles Philharmonic at Disney Hall.
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I'm working getting a new Christmas release ready for iTrax. Scott Wilkinson, the Home Theater Geek who is a brass player himself, suggested that Jim Self contact me about making a high-resolution version of his, "'Tis a Season Tuba Jolly" CD. As the name indicates, the project is a collection of Christmas tunes played by the lower members of the brass family.
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In my Tuesday evening beginning recording class, I introduced the basic concepts of acoustics. I've already talked about a couple of the basic ideas in a previous post including frequency and amplitude (You can revisit that post at http://www.realhd-audio.com/?p=3431. The final major concept is the harmonic spectrum.
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Some days the dog bites you and some days you bit the dog! The new iTrax - Sprint Ultra HD-Audio Sampler has been downloaded many hundreds of times over the past week. I'm thankful that there are so many readers and others interested in hearing the variety of music I offered in the best quality possible.
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What's the most important aspect to a great demonstration track? Of course, it depends on the circumstances but I think we can all agree on what the ideal result would be. Any person having experienced the demonstration should have heard amazing fidelity (not just a louder, bassier, treble heavy track)...perhaps to the point of making a purchase. The hard part is trying to identify the qualities that will elicit the appropriate response.
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So here's the continuation of yesterday's list of questions and answers that I include in a quick summary of music and audio production.

Q - What production procedures are used to make recordings?A - There are several typical ways to make a professional recording. The first is to use a minimal arrangement of microphones (usually just a stereo pair) and capture a "live" performance. With the advent of multitrack recording (thanks to Les Paul) in the 50s, it became possible to record an individual part of a complete track and then overlay another part in sync with the first track.
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